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Petco's Inclusive Employment Practices Support Environmental and Social Goals
International Monetary Fund - 2023
Corporate priorities, government policies, and public demand are driving companies across the world to improve their environmental and social footprint. In South Africa, the Petco Producer Responsibility Organisation NPC is scaling up the recycling of plastics, while improving livelihoods for...
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Trade Interconnectedness : The World with Global Value Chains
International Monetary Fund - 2013
The aim of this paper is to address the implications of Global Value Chains (GVCs) for the Fund's surveillance work. The paper first draws on the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to document the dynamics of trade linkages between countries and regions through GVCs and its impact on the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410433
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Choosing Exchange Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper reviews the exchange regimes of five emerging market countries in the Middle East and North Africa region-Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia-and one oil-exporting country-Iran-to see whether they need to consider adopting more flexible arrangements as they further open their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397599
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Employment Effects of Growth Rebalancing in China
International Monetary Fund - 2009
This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China''s exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … policies to cushion the employment impact in the transition, particularly in meeting the skills gap of associated with this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402469
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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment : The Case of Mauritius
International Monetary Fund - 2004
Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404032
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Denmark; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment performance and the flexicurity model. It also presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245015
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Impact of the global crisis on banking sector soundness in Asian low-income countries
Ree, Jack Joo K. - 2011
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Asian Financial crises : Origins, implications and solutions
International Monetary Fund - 2001
corporate balance sheets in much of Asia: the IMF was unaware of the extraordinary leverage of Korean companies, which in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397245
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Impact of the Global Crisison Banking Sector Soundness in Asian Low-Income Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The paper takes stock of the impact of the global financial crisis that began in late 2007 on banking sectors of Asian low-income countries, by exploring bank-level data provided by Bankscope. The paper examines three key channels of possible crisis spillovers: exposures to (i) valuation changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399361
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Asia Rising : A Sectoral Perspective
International Monetary Fund - 2007
finds that Asia''s remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401163